Final accuser testifies, says he cried for help while former Penn State assistant coach raped him in basement.

BELLEFONTE, Centre County — Victim 9's story started out the same way as that of the seven young men who testified before him.

But the abuse he testified about suffering in Jerry Sandusky's basement bedroom took the allegations against the retired Penn State football coach to a sordid new level Thursday as prosecutors concluded testimony on their side of the case.

The 18-year-old from McClure, Snyder County, who just graduated from high school, told jurors that Sandusky anally raped him during an overnight stay at Sandusky's home more than three years ago. He screamed for help, believing Sandusky's wife, Dottie, was upstairs, but "no one can hear you down there," he testified.

Judge John M. Cleland told jurors Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sexual abuse will resume Monday in Centre County Court after attorneys resolve issues involving evidence. Prosecutors did not formally rest their case; it's common practice not to do so until the defense is about to begin its presentation.

Besides Victim 9, jurors heard testimony from Sandusky's accusers identified in court papers as Victim 3 and Victim 6, the boy whose mother complained to Penn State University police in 1998 when he returned home with wet hair after showering with Sandusky. The accusers all gave their names in court, but The Morning Call typically does not name victims of sexual abuse.

Agent Anthony Sassano, the lead investigator from the state attorney general's office, laid out for jurors the chain of leads that guided investigators from a complaint about Sandusky by school officials in Clinton County regarding one boy to evidence that Sandusky allegedly abused nine other boys.

Cleland told jurors that he will send them to deliberate at the end of the trial with a transcript of Bob Costas' NBC News interview with Sandusky. This is to correct an error in the audio recording that prosecutors played Wednesday. It sounded as if crucial parts of the interview were played twice that day.

Victim 9, skinny with close-cropped hair and wearing an eye patch from a recent injury, said he'd become accustomed to Sandusky's joining him at bedtime during two years of weekends he spent at his home outside State College. They met in 2004 through The Second Mile, Sandusky's charity for troubled children, the teen said.

"When I went to bed, he would come into bed with me and start rubbing my back, hugging me, cracking my back," he said.

Under questioning by Senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph E. McGettigan III, Victim 9 described a progression of abuse that began with kissing, first on the cheeks and lips. Then, he said, Sandusky made him touch the ex-coach's penis.

Asked whether he told his mother, the teen replied, "How are you supposed to tell your mom something like that?"

Sometime later, Sandusky forced the boy to perform oral sex. "He made me give him a … suck his penis, is how you put it," the teen testified, looking away from the jury.

Then it got worse, he said.

"He put his penis in my butt, that's how you would have to put it," Victim 9 testified. He admitted he couldn't remember how old he was when the alleged rape happened.

"He came in and got really aggressive," the teen said. "He just forced me into it. There was no fighting against that."

On cross-examination, defense attorney Joe Amendola asked the boy whether he suffered any injuries or required medical treatment following that rape or any other rapes. Victim 9 said he never required medical treatment. On further questioning, he said he did bleed, but that he just dealt with it.

The defense attorney also brought out testimony from the boy that he continued going to Penn State games with Sandusky as recently as last September.

Victim 6, now 26 and living in Colorado, testified he met Sandusky in 1998 at a Second Mile picnic, where he approached the former Penn State defensive coordinator because he was a "huge football fan."

In May 1998, Sandusky invited the 11-year-old to work out at a Penn State athletic facility. Sandusky picked him up at the State College apartment complex where he lived with his mother and sisters and during the car ride grabbed the boy's left leg, Victim 6 testified.

"It felt a little bit odd, so I pulled away over to the passenger door," he said.

On campus, they toured the football training center, played Sandusky's made-up games — Polish soccer and Polish bowling, using a wad of athletic tape — and wrestled. They then worked out briefly using exercise machines before Sandusky said it was time to shower, the man said.

"I thought it was a little strange. It was only about 15 minutes and I wasn't sweaty," Victim 6 said.

In the showers, he said, he felt awkward and tried to keep his distance. Sandusky called him closer, saying he had already warmed up a shower for him.